Exported audio formats of modern sequencers are by nature bound to a linear way of being played, a game programmer can tie different events to different patterns in a module, the module format was INVENTED for realtime use. There is a level of control offered with trackers that outweighs the grid based timing (which can be somewhat overcome with effects), you can quicly do articulations that are very fiddly with midi unless you are very good at playing the keyboard.Īlso the VERY BEST reason game programmers should use module formats. Every year there are gigs worth of music uploaded to the modarchive. If that werent the case so many people wouldnt use them.
#Milkytracker note on code
And once you have been looking at a tracker for a period of time you no longer see the cryptic code you once did you only see its meaning. Until you get used to the interface it all looks like arcane spells but lets not forget that for most people modern sequencer were once confusing. And once you actually get used to a tracker its way easier on your brain. There is less tools in a tracker but because of this you get to know a tracker very well. With trackers all parameters are hardwired. You have to assign several parameters and map this and that to get ANYTHING done. I now ONLY use trackers with the exception of the rare occurance that i use a vsti to make a sample.įirst of all, there are several benefits of using trackers over modern sequencers: modern sequencers take FOREVER to do simple things. Yes im grave digging here but i happenned to come across this in a search and read some really ill-informed opinions. Doing music with a tracker feels like drawing a texture in a text editor and typing the rgb value of every pixel. I was surprised, as for me that is one of the strengths of Unity. But I honestly would use that kind of functionality if it came with an efficient workflow. Unfortunately both of them are plain trackers. (I am only talking about things that you can do with both!) You need much more time to do it with a tracker than with a sequencer. It is not about the quality, there is amazing music that was made with trackers. The size would probably be a little bit bigger, but still very small. Tiles, if you use a midi/soundbank combination, you get about the same as with mod. (It would probably have been easier to find DLS soundbanks than using a modular sound format) And there would also have been very small soundbanks out there. On the other hand there would have been tons of midi editing applications that do a much better job. If you decide to use a huge matrix with values, you are getting something that is not any more readable. Just as an example: If you decided once to use sixteenth notes, it is very hard or impossible to use triplets in the same track. But the applications that support the modular formats are trackers, which seam to be user unfriendly by definition. That would take months with those applications.) As I like it to work on details and try different things out.
#Milkytracker note on mod
There are amazing songs made in the mod format (or. I hoped that could become a pretty cool feature.
Most of the basic midi editors have several different views, all with its pros and cons. I don't understand why those applications only have one view. As I said before, I like it to work with a matrix view, as it is mostly easier to define the exact length and a volume at once. I very much prefer that one could read the music directly.
#Milkytracker note on pro
I haven't tried it yet, but I doubt it is possible to work efficiently with it.Įric, Player Pro is Mac only and I don't have one. Tiles, I think Modplug Tracker appears like a retro application. Who want's to work like this today?!Īs I have no keyboard, I like it to work with a matrix view, where you can exatly define the length of each note and often one may change the volume of that note in the same view with the mouse. Many screenshots show a grid in which all the commands are written. I had a glance at several of those applications (before I started this thread) and I wonder that my first impression about them is they are outdated from a usability point of view.
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